
In 2011, Roy starred in the Punjabi movie Hero Hitler in Love. Breakthrough, success and stardom in television (2011–2017) In 2010, she played Roop in Do Saheliyaan. In 2008, she participated in Pati Patni Aur Woh. Then, she appeared as Shivani in the series Kasturi. She then participated and won the first season of Zara Nachke Dikha. Roy started her career in 2006 with the Ekta Kapoor drama Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, playing the role of Krishna Tulsi opposite Pulkit Samrat. Career Film and television debut (2006–2010) Mouni had an interest in acting since her childhood and cited actresses Madhubala, Madhuri Dixit and Waheeda Rehman as her acting idols. She finished her part 1 exams and did not return to Delhi after that. She took up mass communication at Jamia Milia Islamia at her parents' insistence, but left the course midway and went to Mumbai to try her luck in the Bollywood film industry. She did her schooling till class 12th from Kendriya Vidyalaya in Baburhat, Cooch Behar and then went to Delhi. Her mother Mukti was a theatre artist, and her father Anil Roy was an office superintendent of the Cooch Behar Zilla Parishad. Her grandfather, Shekhar Chandra Roy was a well-known Jatra theatre artist. Roy was born in Cooch Behar, West Bengal on 28 September 1985 into a Bengali Hindu family. 2.3 Bollywood debut and break from television (2018–present).

2.2 Breakthrough, success and stardom in television (2011–2017).
